This comprehensive textbook gives students in any discipline extensive coverage of the developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues they’ll face in their work with children with disabilities. They`ll explore the beginning of life from conception to infancy, including factors in each stage that can cause disability; learn about child development, including physical development and preventable threats; go in-depth on specific developmental disabilities they`ll likely encounter; and find guidelines on conducting interventions, managing outcomes, and working with families.

This classic text includes learning objectives, case stories, a glossary of key terms, and appendices about medications and syndromes inborn errors of metabolism. Plus its FREE Course Companion Web Site — featuring links for each chapter, PowerPoint slides, new case studies, and study guides — cements this as the perfect text for any class!

New to this edition: Every chapter peer reviewed and extensively updated; Expanded coverage of educational issues and interventions across chapters; and New chapters devoted to special education, early intervention, and sports, exercise, and recreation.

In this book you will discover 250 games and activities designed to help infants to 8-year-olds with all types of disabilities grow through play. Many activities describe special adaptations for physically, visually, and hearing impaired children and for emotionally and mentally handicapped children. Each chapter focuses on a particular "world," or activity theme. Themes include exploring the world of the senses; active games with rolling, crawling, walking, and more; building and creating; imaginative outdoor fun and water play; music play; and group games and activities.

Each activity lists detailed directions, needed equipment, the activity's benefits, and any possible adaptations for children with particular disabilities. Creative Play Activities for Children With Disabilities is the only book to emphasize the continuity between home and program activities by addressing both the concerns of parents guiding their children's activities at home and the issues faced by educators in program settings.

Developed in conjunction with the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, these creative play activities will help confidence and self-esteem blossom as young children meet success in activities that are fun.

This book addresses common misconceptions about developmental disabilities, describes the conditions child welfare workers are most likely to see, provides examplesof effective interventions, and stresses the importance of early intervention to promote healthy development.

Does your child scream at the mere mention of a haircut? Does he need all the tags cut out of his shirt, or only wear very specific textures? Is she a picky eater? Does he have poor handwriting and seem to be more clumsy than the average child?

Maybe your child has difficulty in sensory integration. Sensory integration is the ability to use the senses to make "sense" of the world around us. Sensory integration problems can create these and other problems. This book is packed with practical ideas and tips to help a child who faces challenges with sensory integration dysfunction. It also helps to explain and define sensory integration. It is a book of ideas, strategies, and hints to help your child be successful despite the challenges of DSI. The book presents a brief overview of sensory integration dysfunction and its varied presentations. It then proceeds to offer strategies that may be helpful to accomplish everyday tasks.

This video shows the many positive and enriching experiences of raising a child with Down Syndrome. Covering the period from birth through adult years, the video highlights various aspects of a child`s life--early intervention and pre-school, school, graduation, job training, and pursuing a life of independence--through interviews with parents, teachers, scout leaders, and individuals with Down Syndrome. It is far easier to see the similarities between a child with Down and his or her peers than it is to focus on the differences.

In this tape parents who are expecting their first child--a child diagnosed with Down Syndrome--relate their feelings in anticipation of the birth of their son. Later interviews reveal that many of their worries have been unsubstantiated, that they are in love with their baby, and that he is doing very well. A celebration of the human spirit, this program should be viewed by everyone who touches the lives of children with Down. The video is a collaborative effort among several state agencies in Columbus, OH and the local Down Syndrome Association.

This book is a brilliant blend of experience born from thousands of interactions with kids, their parents, and other educators, and solid, psychologically relevant research. Through hundreds of stories and examples gathered over three decades as an educator, Dave gives a clear picture of special needs kids for who they are, not for who we are afraid they might be.

A Four Part Video Intensive Series for Parents of Special Needs Children

Parents of "special needs" children not only have the joy of nurturing another life, but the task of dealing with their own special variety of emotions. This four-part series was created especially for parents of special needs children to hear stories from parents with similar experiences and feelings.

The Series is Divided Into Four Parts:

Part 1: Lost Dreams Includes conversations of parents expressing their grief when the "ideal" baby is not born, instead a child whose birth brings disappointment. 23 minutes.

Part 2: Rebuilding Dreams Focuses on the grieving that parents experience at each developmental stage for a special needs child and the building of a new dream. 17 minutes.

Part 3: Challenge of Parenting With the many extra demands in nurturing special needs children, the need for parents to also nurture themselves is explored. 26 minutes.

Part 4: Professional Puzzle Centers on the many pressures on parents, who share their insights and experiences of working together and how each may learn from the other. 28 minutes.

A finalist for The Association of Severely Handicapped (TASH) Media awards and the recipient of Iowa's Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC) 1992 Special Dove Award, this video gives support and hope to parents facing many complex issues in raising special needs children.

Developed by researchers through the Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion, these 6 practical booklets are designed for early intervention, preschool, and child care programs to share with parents as their children with special needs make the transition to preschool at age 3.

This program deals exclusively with the subject of parenting
children with mental or physical disabilities. Particular emphasis is
placed on children from infancy through early childhood. The following are
topics covered: birth and diagnosis of child with disabilities, psychological
stages, early intervention, and much more.